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  • Silvered light reflection of a doctor's lamp suspended over your four year old self.

    Broken Mirrors 2010

  • Silvered by the moonlight, casting black shadows that stretched across the frantically-waving grasses in front of them, they backwinged in beside their charges.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Silvered mist seeped up from the ground or coalesced from somewhere, shrouding the ruined hall even before Anna had completed the second line of the spell.

    Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • Silvered with her beams, I am about to jog to Clapton upon my own stumps; musing, as I homeward plod my way.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • Silvered albumen and plain paper, well desiccated, could be kept in that way for a certain period, especially if the blotting paper is impregnated with sodium bicarbonate and well dried.

    Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois

  • Silvered and gilded beetles, or butterflies, fastened on the outside, have a fanciful effect.

    Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

  • Silvered with haze as fruits still fresh with bloom,

    Flame and Shadow Sara Teasdale 1908

  • Silvered glass is better than metals or other substances for telescope mirrors, chiefly because of the perfection with which glass can be ground and polished, and the ease of renewing its silvered surface when tarnished.

    The New Heavens George Ellery Hale 1903

  • Silvered by time completely, 419. his beard was sable, 129. o'er with age, 348. the walls of Cumnor Hall, 426. tips, with, 106.

    Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

  • They include the elaborately decorated 'Silvered and Engraved' armour dating from 1515 and the Wilton armour, possibly the king's last suit of armour made in about 1544.

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